In glomerulonephritis, there is intraglomerular activation of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) leading to high output production of nitric oxide (NO). This can result in supraphysiologic amounts of NO and cause oxidative injury. It is unknown whether mechanisms of cellular defense against NO-mediated injury exist. Induction of the heme catabolizing enzyme heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), which ge...

This study aimed to elucidate the anti-inflammatory activity of C. tinctorius leaves by measuring inflammatory parameters such as nitric oxide (NO) production and mRNA expression iNOS, interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-1β in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced HaCaT cells. Further, effect ethanol extract on MAPKs/NF-κB signaling pathway was examined The phytochemical profile determined using UPLC-QTOF-MS/M...

Objective: To investigate the effect and clinical significance of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) levels serum miRNA-21 expression in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Methods: Advanced NSCLC patients treated at First People’s Hospital Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, between July 2021 June 2022 were included this study. MDSCs peripheral circulation assessed by fl...

A wide variety of cells usefully but sometimes destructively produce nitric oxide via inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). Data obtained by gel shift analysis and reporter assays have linked murine iNOS gene induction by cytokines and bacterial products with the binding of a number of proteins to a proximal promoter, as well as to a distal enhancer of the iNOS gene. Nevertheless, these techn...

We investigated the effect of rapamycin, a specific inhibitor of the mammalian serine/threonine kinase, mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), on the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated RAW 264.7 cells. Pretreatment of cells with rapamycin significantly inhibited LPS-induced nitrite production and the expression of iNOS protein in a dose-de...

BACKGROUND This is the first study to measure inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) gene and protein expression quantitatively in primary epithelial cells from very young children with cystic fibrosis (CF). Low levels of exhaled nitric oxide (NO) in CF suggest dysregulation of NO production in the airway. Due to the importance of NO in cell homeostasis and innate immunity, any defect in the pa...

Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) regulation in human and murine macrophages in vitro differs considerably. In this study, expression of macrophage iNOS in ruminants was addressed. Nitric oxide (NO) output by cattle and goat macrophages was as different as that by human and mouse macrophages. Bovine macrophages activated by heated Salmonella dublin or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) expressed hig...

Phenotypic modulation of smooth muscle is associated with various pathological conditions, including bladder dysfunction. Cytoskeletal dynamics modulate the cell phenotype and were recently shown to be involved in regulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). We tested the hypothesis that the cell differentiation status affects iNOS expression, and that iNOS is preferentially expressed ...

Murine inducible nitric oxide (NO) synthase (iNOS) is catalytically active only in dimeric form. Assembly of its purified subunits into a dimer requires H4B. To understand the structure-activity relationships of human iNOS, we constitutively expressed recombinant human iNOS in NIH 3T3 cells by using a retroviral vector. These cells are deficient in de novo H4B biosynthesis and the role of H4B i...

PURPOSE We investigated whether oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR) results in changes in the protein expression of neuronal and inducible nitric oxide synthases (nNOS and iNOS, respectively) in rat model of OIR. In addition, we evaluated whether treatment of rats with triamcinolone acetonide (TA) prevents this response. METHODS To promote OIR, Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to hyperoxia from ...